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Talk to Twitter using C#.Net and LinqToTwitter!

We have seen Linq to Object, Linq to SQL and Linq to XML. This post is regarding a library Linq To Twitter!!

You guessed right. This is a library for .Net developers to do many things with twitter!
As you can imagine, you can query twitter and get details of users, tweets, timelines, friends, trends and you can search twitter for anything. Use Linq to do all these.

Well, this opens up lot of possibilities isn't it?
You can query the followers your friends have, and even see their tweets, their friends & followers and so on. Stop Spying!. No No. Its open, you can! :)

Update your status (Post a new tweet), find the mentions, follow new friends all with just few lines of code!

If you can use this library to a good extent, you can develop a super cool twitter application yourself instead of using any other twitter client or even the Official twitter web. Let us see how to use it.

Official Definition
LINQ to Twitter is a 3rd party LINQ Provider for the Twitter micro-blogging service. It uses standard LINQ syntax for queries and includes method calls for changes via the Twitter API.

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